I don’t think I’ve ever known a cat that didn’t do this on a semi regular basis. Or dogs either. Or people. At least people give you warnings and learn to use the wc. Love me, love my vermin/pet/lap accessory…

Junior (well, the people he nominally belongs to call him “Chip”, but he takes most of his meals here and sleeps on our couch more nights than hot, and we call him “Junior”) has never horked up a hairball in the house.

Miss Kitty, OTOH, who is theoretically an indoor cat, makes a break for outdoors if you’re unobservant about opening doors … and when she does, she inevitably eats a bunch of grass, and comes back inside and whoopsies all over the living room rloor.

If nobody notices before Maggie (almost-five granddaughter) comes down stairs, it’s dollars to doughnuts that she’ll step her little bare foot in it and we’ll have a round of “Ew! Ew! Ew! Get it off!!” as she hops around the place on one foot, not stopping to let someone clean it off…

My cat bazooka barfed – copiously – behind the downstairs freezer the other day. She’s also shown a tendancy to have ‘accidents’ back there, apparently enroute to her litter box. Or maybe she simply prefers the warmth and privacy. That’s why (after I’ve finished cleaning) I’m putting up barriers that won’t restrict air flow to the cooling coils, but WILL keep the cat out…

Expanded metal mesh over the entire area? I once tried to keep cats out of an area I didn’t want them in by propping a 4-foot tall piece of plywood in the door opening. The ones who couldn’t clear it on the fly simply jumped to the top of the plywood, then jumped down on the other side.

Aside from being poited into the lake, she hasn’t yet seen all the stuff Monica has told her about. Like Phix in her natural state, for instance. I’m pretty sure that would qualify as something G-D amazing all by itself. Then there are her personal demons, each of whom would knock her socks off if shown to her. Hearing about them is one thing, experiencing them first hand is a whole new level of amazing.

There are many things that happen, but which Paul skips over. Often times they are things that other writers would have shown. For example, we never saw Monica working on Jin’s problem, but all of the sudden she was trying to track down something smuggled out of Lantis and hidden in Europe. She must have done some work to get to that point, but we never it happen. So, it’s not a matter of time jumping, it would just be a matter of Paul not showing us anything that happened between Monica and Tina returning and what’s happening now.

In yesterday’s strip, Amanda talked about “something larger and beyond us” that is “potentially run by even bigger idiots.” That sounds like the library to me. If so, Monica or Tina probably told her about it. It also could be that it was something we don’t even know about yet. Maybe Monica figured out that the black hole at the center of the galaxy is an artificial device and that’s what is run by potentially bigger idiots. It’s never a good idea to assume that something didn’t happen, just because Paul didn’t show us clearly that it did.

It’s bothering me a bit that Amanda seems so vapid. She seemed that way when she met Bud, too. Maybe this time it is due to Tina’s influence, but as upset as Monica was, you would think she would be a little more serious. Perhaps she only talked to Tina, though.

Come to think of it, it’s easy to get caught up in things if someone you know is part of it. That’s probably what’s happening. She wouldn’t act this way, I don’t think, if she was introduced to this through a stranger.

I wonder how she will react once she finds out that Shelly’s been a part of this a lot longer than she has. She had a low opinion of Shelly.

Hairballs scare me. the noise they make coughing them up sounds awful!
im giving my cat anti-hairball treats each day in the hopes she doesnt get them.
shes had one since we’ve had her (which i still have nightmares over. thought she was choking to death!)
and we got her as a kitten and had her nearly 2 years now 🙂

Which brings up the possibility Nudge hacks up hairballs from time to time. For that matter, Phix. Hopefully they’re too civilized to tongue clean themselves, let alone lick their butts (their own butts, that is).

A couple of neighborhood cats have adopted me recently, but they aren’t really inside cats, so I haven’t experienced any hwarfing yet. They are fun to watch. Kuro, the bigger one, likes to hang back while his bob-tailed sister, Shorty, tries to invade the dog’s dish in the back yard. I think they have cartoon-style adventures when I’m at work.

I don’t see how Amanda can contain herself. Were it me, I would want to go to the library NOW! I would want to see Phix in her glory NOW! Communicate with her NOW!. All of it. Show me my demons, Poit me to the calendar machine chamber. I would want to see it all without delay. Anything else I was doing would fall by the wayside. Heck, I would ty to get permission to live at the Library for a year or two.